All cultures everywhere have attempted to change their body in an attempt to meet their cultural standards of beauty as well as their religious and/or social obligations.

Explain this all. 

– “All cultures everywhere have attempted to change their body in an attempt to meet their cultural standards of beauty as well as their religious and/or social obligations. In addition, people modify and adorn their bodies as part of the complex process of creating and recreating their personal and social identities.” (Margo de Mello, 2014)

• De Mello explains that the culture of physical improvement trains us not only to believe that all bodily processes are under our control, but to feel ashamed about those parts of our flesh that refuse comply with the cultural ideal.

• ▫Lelwica clarifies however that such shame is not a natural response to being fat, physically impaired, chronically sick, or old.

• for instance body shame is a culturally conditioned reaction to a commercially-fabricated fantasy of physical perfection.